Yes Janet its my own tree. I love birds and their songs, so I planted trees edible both to birds and children. Children love them(neighbours) and birds. These trees fruit heavy, we get more then enough. I have for the last two years a breeding pair of Himalayan Crested Bulbuls and I don't know how many juvenile bulbuls whose crests have not developed as yet.
Ziziphus zizyphus and Ziziphus nummularia grow wild here. Its not these two. There is another Ziziphus grows down South known as Sindhi berri whose fruit is round and about one and half inch in dia. This one is elongated length is a little under two inches while dia is about one and half inch and in the nursery trade its known as Show berri. As it is a grafted tree and not natural I have a feeling about Zizyphus mauritiana. I put the scale there on purpose, our local ones have smaller sized leaves not as huge as this one.
When I am confused then I come to this forum so that other eyes also go over and counter check. Net is some what of a library reference, you get what you enter and it is not necessary that every one enters the same search parameters.
Bit off colour today due to a trip down memory lane, very far down.
Regards,
Masud.
Where are the botanists Janet?
